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  • From: Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Water Crisis Rocks LA, Mexico City; Who's Next?
  • Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:03:03 -0400


I've mentioned freshwater as one part of the perfect storm coming for
agriculture, and discussed methods of conservation for food growing. But I
get no traction even on a list like this, not even pushback. ~paul

As for the water crisis at the macro level, I don't see there's anything that's going to stop the juggernaut other than the fall of the first dominoes (as opposed to the ravings of wusses and whackos on the subject).

As for agriculture in my own backyard, my experience is that there is nothing more important than getting the organic matter up in my soil. In more than one season here, I've been surprised when people have told me, "Man, this drought is *awful*--I've already given up on my garden"--when my own garden was not unduly stressed for water. (OM was 8.4% last time I had it tested.)

~Harvey

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Harvey in northern Virginia
www.themodernhomestead.us

The current (publicly admitted) level of the national debt is eleven trillion
dollars, which comes to more than $35,000 *per person* in this country. Since
roughly 45% of those people are taxpayers, the bill *per taxpayer* comes to
roughly $80,000. (That's *in addition to* normal levels of taxation to fund
current operations of government.) What schedule would you propose for paying
off your share?





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